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Alutiiq Museum announces closure ahead of major expansion and renovation

The Alutiiq Museum is closing its doors in mid-July, as it prepares to break ground on a $13.8 million expansion project later this summer. A rendering of the entrance to the Alutiiq Museum once the expansion and renovation project is complete (Photo courtesy the Alutiiq Museum) The Alutiiq Museum’s planned renovation and expansion will add 3,400 square feet to the …

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Midday Report June 30, 2023

Yaakws greeting the Hōkūle‘a and its crew at Auke Bay. June 10, 2023. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO)

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Law-enforcement officers shot and killed a heavily armed man who on Wednesday barricaded himself in his house near Ester. A phone sat at the bottom of the Kenai River for four days last week, until it was reeled in by an unsuspecting angler. And the Polynesian voyaging canoe visiting Southeast will use …

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An exploratory vessel mapping Alaska’s sea floor docks in Kodiak

An exploratory vessel that’s mapping the seafloor along Alaska’s coast docked in Kodiak last weekend. The crew of the Okeanos Explorer was in town to restock supplies before they went back to logging fault lines along the Aleutian Chain.  The Okeanos Explorer is operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It’s in Alaska as part of an international effort …

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Midday Report June 29, 2023

Theo Greenly / KUCB Grenades, chemical weapons and other munitions have been turning up on the island’s hiking trails and beaches for decades.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Senator Sullivan says Alaska’s youth mental health crisis is severe and profound. Military weapons experts will visit Unalaska to examine a possible unexploded device. And Anchorage pushes homeless campers from one unofficial site to the next. Grenades, chemical weapons and other munitions have been turning up on Unalaska’s hiking trails and beaches …

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Alaska Fisheries Report 29 June 2023

Dungeness crab that were caught in the Bering Sea by a local Unalaska fisherman. (Sofia Stuart-Rasi/KUCB)

On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Sabine Poux reports on the Kasilof dipnet opening for KDLL, Dungeness fishing has been hot in Unalaska, story by KUCB’s Sofia Stuart-Rasi, and dungeness season has opened in Southeast to muted enthusiasm, as reported by Hannah Flor of KFSK. Dungeness crab that were caught in the Bering Sea by a local …

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NOAA’s biennial bottom trawl survey is underway in the Gulf of Alaska

A major study of one of the state’s largest marine environments is underway. Data from this year’s Gulf of Alaska bottom trawl survey will provide information about Pacific cod recovery following marine heatwaves. (Photo courtesy NOAA Fisheries) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration conducts bottom trawl surveys to compile fisheries and environmental data across the country, and this summer, the …

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Midday Report June 28, 2023

A gray beluga whale calf and three adults swim together in Cook Inlet. A newly released population estimate shows signs of recovery, or at least stablization, among the endangered whales. The unprecedented marine heatwave known as The Blob is believed to have taken a toll, but the population has increased since that heatwave dissipated. (Photo by Paul Wade/NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center)

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Billions of dollars in federal funding coming into the state are hoped to help bridge the rural digital divide. The state of Cook Inlet belugas looks a bit better. And The City of Valdez is asking the Alaska Supreme Court to make Hilcorp show it could handle an oil spill. A gray …

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